One of my more senior students recently commented, You pretty much just point out the shortcuts on the path, dont you. On my best days, yes. Its what we teachers do. We try to point students in the right direction; one that will help them let go of even more. At...

The commitment to walking along the Path of Awakening challenges us in ways that most of us dont expect. Truly dedicating ourselves to anything is hard work, but this is especially true for this process. Devotion to deep spiritual work is perhaps one of the most...

Blogger, Matthew Yglesias suggests: The map lumps the plains states in with the church belt, but if you look at the data more specifically youll see that nine of the ten churchiest states are in the south and the remaining one is...

Mary Midgley over at the Guardian suggests that we quit seeing ourselves as God, thereby reversing the trends that accompany this mindset: If we ask, then, what religious change is most urgently needed today, the best answer surely is that we should debunk and explode...

TIME Magazine’s David van Biema gives us 2008’s Top 10 stories on religion. For my money, this story is especially fascinating since it applies to our sangha in really specific ways. A 35,000-person poll by the Pew Forum for Religion & Public Life...